General Practitioners: Recruitment
(asked on 23rd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional GPs have been recruited since January 2020.
This question was answered on 28th February 2022
There were 1,672 more full time equivalent doctors in general practice in December 2021 compared to December 2019. We are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement, Health Education England and the profession to increase the general practice workforce in England. In 2021/22, 4,000 trainees accepted a general practitioner training place - an increase from 2,671 in 2014.